Rubic wrote: > Thanks for your reply. I wasn't clear in my > prior post. Rather than support the entire > range of iso8601 formats, how about *just* the > format that datetime emits? Call it the > parse_datetime() function. Then it would be > possible to take the output string of a datetime > object and read it back in to round-trip the > data. > > >>> now = str(datetime.datetime.now()) > >>> now > '2006-02-24 06:58:23.737586' > >>> datetime.parse_datetime(now) > datetime.datetime(2006, 2, 24, 6, 58, 23, 737586) > > Jeff Bauer > Rubicon, Inc.
If that's truly all you want, then it's a near trivial function to write. One of those "throw-away" functions you tend to whip up a few dozen times on every project, hardly noticing because you're using Python and it's so easy to do. -Peter -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list